ADMIN NOTICE : OFFICIAL FACTION RIGHTS

[chovynz]

I do wonder how much wording really comes into play with these threads. If it was about "Privileges and Responsibilities" instead of "Rights" would it make a difference? A lot of the arguing is about rights and freedoms - ideas that get people riled up.

Regardless, it seems the main objection is over leaders being able to block the ability of other ships to do things (even if it doesn't sound like that to me). Without arguing details, why not more suggestions of alternatives?

The wording is important, and I mention freedoms because they are a different thing to rights. Mention rights and a bomb goes off. Seriously, Nobody has any "Rights" on this server. Not one. Only those who pay for and operate it out of the goodness of their hearts. Igiss and majkp are the only two people I would say have any "Rights" to do whatever the hell they want with this server.

Everything else is our "freedom" to act within certain boundaries. The boundaries are set and defined by those with the "Rights", but they have allowed "us" as a community to have a say, and have delegated certain "powers" and responsibilities to our <strike>nannies</strike> admins. Understanding that you (generic) as a visitor have no "rights" whatsoever on this server and it will go a long way to calming many stupid and unnecessary squabbles.

So again I ask, what is our freedoms as individual players on this server? Because it really does not make a difference if you are in a faction or not. Are we going to have one person, or faction, determine what ships we can fly? Are we going to have more rules about you can and cannot do based on someone else's perspective? I am not asking these rhetorically, I really would like to know, because up until this point it has not been clear. sanctions have been flip-flopping all over the place, BECAUSE we as a community has not resolved this.

Do I trust these current leaders? Yes I do. But I remember Tony, and various other things that THIS community has done. I remind this community of what it is capable of, when it's all over just a computer game. You can lose friendships and things get nasty, because issues like this are buried, or shouted down, instead of talked through and the points addressed. It is seriously not worth losing friendships and the nastiness that happens when things are misunderstood from the outset.

Do I trust the admins to do their job? Yes I do. But more clarity is needed. Perhaps, this is a way of getting some work off the admins and onto the faction leaders? I'm all for that outcome, but not this method. I'm opposed to "battleship" regulation by faction leader control, since it begs the question, "why stop there only at battleships? Why not make faction joining compulsory and put all power like that into a factions hands? Since it should in theory take more work out of admins hands." HOWEVER, I say lets try the battleship in faction leader control for 3 months or so and see what happens. There is too much theory and too much talk, when experimentation and "play" is needed. Less talk, more do.

God, I hate talks like this.

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